# US 2014/0153593 A1 · Directed-energy irradiating apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0153593 A1 - Document ID: US20140153593A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/909,300 - Filed: 2013-06-04 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-03 - Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. - Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. - Inventors: Shingo NISHIKATA; Yuki UCHIYAMA; Hiroyuki DAIGO; Ryuichi MATSUDA; Shinya ISHII; Hiroki UCHIDA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140153593A1 ## CPC - H01S 3/0903: {Free-electron laser} - F41H 13/0043: {Directed energy weapons, i.e. devices that direct a beam of high energy content toward a target for incapacitating or destroying the target} - F41H 13/005: {the high-energy beam being a laser beam} - F41H 13/0068: {the high-energy beam being of microwave type, e.g. for causing a heating effect in the target} - H01S: DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL - F41H: ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL ## Abstract A directed-energy irradiating apparatus invention includes a switch which selects one of an FEL apparatus and an HPM apparatus to be supplied with microwave based on external environmental data. A target is destroyed even in a situation that a destruction effect by a FEL beam cannot be expected, while maintaining the destruction ability for the target by the FEL beam. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A directed-energy irradiating apparatus comprising: a free electron laser (FEL) apparatus configured to accelerate free electrons by using microwave, and irradiate a FEL beam generated from the accelerated free electrons to each of targets; a high power microwave (HPM) apparatus configured to irradiate an HPM beam generated based on the microwave, to each target; and a control unit configured to select at least one of the FEL beam and the HPM beam as directed-energy to be irradiated based on external environmental data. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control unit comprises a switch configured to select one of said FEL apparatus and said HPM apparatus to be supplied with the microwave based on the external environmental data. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the external environmental data comprises either of weather data, geographic data, and status data of the target. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a platform type or specific type of the target. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a beam spread on the target during irradiating the FEL beam, and wherein said switch selects said HPM apparatus to be supplied with the microwave, when the beam spread is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a temperature change of the target before and after the irradiation of the FEL beam, and wherein said switch selects said HPM apparatus to be supplied with the microwave, when a temperature change is equal to or less than a predetermined value. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a reflection intensity of the laser beam from the target, and wherein said switch selects said HPM apparatus to be supplied with the microwave, when a laser cross section calculated based on the reflection intensity is greater than a predetermined value. ### Claim 8 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a speed of the target, and wherein said switch selects said HPM apparatus to be supplied with the microwave, when the speed is greater than a predetermined value. ### Claim 9 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating the number of the targets, and wherein said switch selects said HPM apparatus to be supplied with the microwave, when the number of the targets is more than a predetermined value. ### Claim 10 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a relative speed to the target, and wherein said switch switches a supply destination of the microwave such that one of the FEL beam and the HPM beam is irradiated, when the relative speed to the target during the irradiation of the other of the FEL beam and the HPM beam is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. ### Claim 11 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a speed or an trajectory of the target, and wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave such that one of the FEL beam and the HPM beam is irradiated, when a change of the speed or trajectory of the target before and after the irradiation of the other of the FEL beam and the HPM beam is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. ### Claim 12 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating relative positions of the targets or the number of the targets, and wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave such that one of the FEL beam and the HPM beam is irradiated, when the number of the targets after the irradiation of the other of the FEL beam and the HPM beam is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, or when the targets are distributed in an area wider than a predetermined area. ### Claim 13 (depends on 3) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the status data of each target comprises data indicating a deceptive means around the target, and wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave based on a kind of the deceptive means of the target. ### Claim 14 (depends on 2) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the external environmental data comprises data indicating the number of the artifacts other than the targets in an irradiation area, and wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave based on a comparison result of the number of the artifacts other than the targets in the irradiation area and a predetermined value which is individually set to the FEL beam or the HPM beam. ### Claim 15 (depends on 2) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the external environmental data comprises engagement status of the targets, and wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave based on the engagement status of the targets after the irradiation of the FEL beam or the HPM beam. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave in response to command data supplied through an interface in priority to the external environmental data. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The directed-energy irradiating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said switch switches the supply destination of the microwave based on an operation situation of said FEL apparatus or said HPM apparatus, in priority to the external environmental data.